DSI — General Plans of Construction — Ground Surfaces

This dataset contains the digital vectorial version of all plan elements — of the type of ground planes — of the general plans of construction. A plan element is an object by which the government concerned reflects the scope of (part of) the spatial option it has taken on the basis of certain urban planning regulations on the graphic plan, if it considers it necessary. This object is conceptually always traced back to a plane, line or point, to which a certain legend symbol has been assigned. In order to ensure the link between a “location” and the “full set of requirements applicable at that location”, it is necessary to unravel a plan in some complementary geodata layers in vector format. In this way, we obtain an unambiguous link between prescription texts and their corresponding plan elements. Ground surface regulations will in practice always be linked to a flat-shaped plan element that in turn receives a full-fledged legend symbol, i.e. an opaque symbolism. Such rules may be either substitute or complementary in relation to other rules, depending on the applicable legislative limits on subsidiarity, hierarchy of plans, and the transition from the old legislation to the new legislation. On top of the base surfaces of the plan, other types of plan elements can be laid. These are classified according to geometry: planes, lines, points and according to the geometric accuracy of the plan elements (geometrically precise or as an indication). The plan elements are available in this dataset to the extent that they have already been uploaded by the relevant municipal authority, which owns the data and is responsible for the content.